Clyde's Brad Smith escapes the Napoleon defense as he scrambles for a touchdown during the first half of a high school football game. Jonathon Bird/News-Messenger

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Kevin Shields
Sports writer

As a waterboy on the Clyde sidelines on Friday nights, Brad Smith use to watch Matt Guhn plow thru defenders with reckless abandon en route to big time rushing numbers. He was mesmerized by Guhn's inability to go down on a play and he quickly developed an admiration, even to this day, as he himself has run by many of Guhn's school rushing records.

"He was an animal," said Smith of Guhn, who held the Fliers' career rushing record of 2,803 yards until Smith broke it this past year. "I loved his running style and I loved the power he had."

Power and size was on Guhn's side, listed at 6-foot-1, 240 pounds. ...